PTN: Sale of Pine Creek Uranium Rights To Greenvale Energy
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ASX Code: PTN PATRONUS RESOURCES
Shares on issue: 1,479 million Level 1, 24 Outram Street
Market Capitalisation: $70 million WEST PERTH WA 6005
Cash and Liquid Investments: $75 million (31 March 2026) P: +61 08 9242 2227
E info@patronusresources.com.au
patronusresources.com.au
ASX Announcement 15 June 2026
PATRONUS TO SELL PINE CREEK URANIUM RIGHTS TO
GREENVALE ENERGY
Highlights
• Patronus Resources Limited (ASX: PTN) has entered a Binding Term Sheet to sell its
uranium exploration rights to Greenvale Energy Limited (ASX:GRV) (‘Greenvale’).
• On completion of the transaction, Patronus will become a substantial shareholder
of Greenvale with a cornerstone shareholding of 19.6%, have a right to maintain its
shareholding to support the growth and development of the new expanded project,
and appoint Board representation.
• Completion is subject to the satisfaction or waiver of various conditions typical of a
transaction of this nature.
• Patronus will continue its focus on advancing its gold and base metal interests
across the Pine Creek region
Patronus Resources Limited (ASX: PTN, “Patronus” or “the Company”) is pleased to advise that
it has entered into a Binding Term Sheet to sell its uranium exploration rights across its Northern
Territory Project in the Pine Creek region to Greenvale Energy Limited (“Greenvale”). Under the
proposed transaction, Patronus will receive a 19.6% shareholding in Greenvale (valued at
~$5.5M) along with a Board position and a right to support the growth of a dedicated uranium
exploration company with a district-scale 2,466km2
uranium exploration portfolio in the premier
Pine Creek Orogen uranium province within the Northern Territory.
Patronus Resources’ Managing Director, John Ingram, commented: “The sale of the uranium
exploration rights to Greenvale will provide the uranium exploration impetus that this region
deserves in a dedicated uranium exploration entity and allow Patronus to focus on its gold and
base metal interests across the Pine Creek region.
The retention of a significant interest in the shareholding of Greenvale is recognition of the belief
that Patronus has in the assets and people of Greenvale and sits well with the strategic
investment thesis for Patronus”.
Uranium Exploration Rights Terms
Under the terms of the binding term sheet:
Grant of rights: Patronus will, upon satisfaction of the conditions, grant exclusive uranium
exploration and development rights over the tenements for up to 20 years.
Greenvale will have priority access for uranium exploration activities across the Thunderball
Prospects until 31 December 2027. In all other cases, Patronus has priority in cases of
conflicting exploration activities.
Consideration: Greenvale will provide Patronus with Consideration Shares as consideration for
grant of the Uranium Rights for the Pine Creek Uranium Project. Subject to necessary approvals
(including shareholder approval under the ASX Listing Rules), Greenvale will issue 144,736,842
ordinary shares to Patronus or its nominee, at an issue price of $0.038, the total consideration
being AUD$5.5M. Based on the Greenvale capital structure on 6 June 2026, it is expected that
Patronus will have a 19.6% shareholding interest in Greenvale once the Consideration Shares
have been issued.
Future Capital Support: For 24 months Patronus will have the right to a reasonable opportunity
to participate pro rata in any proposed equity capital raising.
Board Representation: Patronus will have the right, but not the obligation, to nominate one
person for appointment as a Non-Executive Director of Greenvale; the nomination right will
continue until such time that Patronus’ voting power in Greenvale is less than 10% for two
consecutive months.
In the first instance Patronus will propose Mr Rowan Johnston (Patronus Non-Executive Chair) as
a Non-Executive Director of Greenvale.
Conditions: Completion of the acquisition is subject to the satisfaction or waiver of various
conditions, including:
a. Completion of legal due diligence to Greenvale's satisfaction.
b. Greenvale obtaining shareholder approval for the issue of Consideration Shares and any
other approval required under the ASX Listing Rules;
c. Patronus obtaining any approvals and consents required under its agreements with third
parties related to the tenements, including (for certain properties) with its joint venture
partners, and Greenvale entering any agreements with these third parties as conditions
of their approvals;
d. Greenvale and Patronus entering into a formal Uranium Rights Agreement incorporating
the terms of the Term Sheet, before Greenvale's general meeting at which the
abovementioned approvals are sought; and
e. Greenvale obtaining all the necessary statutory and regulatory authorisations, consents,
permits and approvals.
Patronus is continuing discussions with its joint venture partners to seek the appropriate
approvals and consents in order for the proposed transaction to be completed.
Authorised for release by the Board of Directors
For further information, please contact:
Investor enquiries Media enquiries
John Ingram Nicholas Read
MD, Patronus Resources Read Corporate
+61 8 9242 2227 +61 419 929 046
ABOUT PATRONUS RESOURCES LTD
Patronus Resources (ASX: PTN) is a leading West Australian and Northern Territory gold, base metals and
uranium development and exploration company, with a combined gold Mineral Resource exceeding than
1.2Moz gold. Patronus’s key focus in WA is its 100% owned Cardinia Gold Project (CGP) located in the
highly prospective North-Eastern Goldfields region of Western Australia. The CGP has a 1 Moz gold
Mineral Resource defined in both oxide and deeper primary mineralisation at Cardinia East and
Mertondale. The Northern Territory Project boasts more than 1,500 square kilometres of prime tenure in
the Pine Creek Orogen, which hosts significant gold and world class uranium deposits. Patronus has a
current gold MRE of 0.3Moz at its Fountain Head Project and 177kt zinc, 37kt lead,16Moz silver and
0.2Moz gold at its Iron Blow and Mt Bonnie base metals projects.
With a proven track record of monetisation of assets and a strong balance sheet, PTN is poised to deliver
strong growth to PTN shareholders throughout this period of transformational growth.
COMPETENT PERSONS STATEMENT
The information contained in this report relating to exploration results relates to information compiled or
reviewed by Ria Brabham. Ria Brabham is a member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists and is a
full-time employee of the company. Ms Brabham has sufficient experience of relevance to the styles of
mineralisation and the types of deposit under consideration, and to the activities undertaken to qualify
as a Competent Person as defined in the 2012 edition of the JORC “Australasian Code for Reporting of
Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves". Ms Brabham consents to the inclusion in this
report of the matters based on information in the form and context in which it appears.
CAUTIONARY STATEMENT
In relation to the disclosure of visual mineralisation, the Company cautions that visual estimates of
sulphide material abundance should never be considered a proxy or substitute for laboratory analysis.
Laboratory assay results are required to determine the widths and grade of the visible mineralisation
reported in preliminary geological logging. The Company will update the market when laboratory
analytical results become available.
Figure A1 – Regional overview showing PTN tenure in relation to neighbouring production centres at Leonora.
Figure A2 – Regional overview showing PTN tenure in relation to neighbouring projects in the NT.
Mineral Resources - Gold
The information in this table that relates to the Mineral Resources for Mertons Reward, Mert 3-4/Nth and Mert 5 have been
extracted from PTN ASX Announcement on 12th
Feb 2025 titled ‘Mertondale MRE Update’. Resources for Quicksilver, Eclipse,
Tonto and Cardinia East have been extracted from the Company’s ASX announcement on 3 July 2023 titled “Cardinia Gold
Project Mineral Resource Passes 1.5Moz” and are available at www.asx.com. Mineral Resources reported in accordance with
JORC 2012 using a 0.4 g/t Au cut-off within AUD2,600 optimisation shells1
. Underground Resources are reported using a 2.0 g/t
cut-ff grade outside AUD2,600 optimisation shells. The information in this table that relates to the Mineral Resources for
Fountain Head and Tally Ho have been extracted from the ASX announcement of PNX Metals Limited (PNX) on 16 June 2020
titled “Mineral Resource Update at Fountain Head” and are reported utilising a cut-off grade of 0.7 g/t Au and can be found at
www.asx.com reported under the ASX code ‘PNX’. The information in this table that relates to the Mineral Resources for Glencoe
have been extracted from the PNX ASX announcement on 30h
August 2022 titled “Glencoe Gold MRE Update” and are reported
utilising a cut-off grade of 0.7g/t Au and can be found at www.asx.com reported under the ASX code ‘PNX’. The information in
this table that relates to the Mineral Resources for Mt Porter have been extracted from the PNX ASX announcement titled “PNX
acquires the Mt Porter Gold Deposit, NT” on 28h
September 2022 and are reported using a cut-off grade of 1.0 g/t Au and can be
found at www.asx.com under the ASX code ‘PNX’. The information in this table that relates tothe Mineral Resources for Fountain
Head, TallyHo, Glencoe and Mt Porter was also reported in the Scheme Booklet dated17 July 2024 issued by PNX for the scheme
of arrangement between PNX and the shareholders of PNX for the acquisition of PNX by the Company. The Scheme Booklet was
released to ASX on 18 July 2024 and can be found at www.asx.com under the ASX codes ‘PTN’ and ‘PNX’The Company confirms
that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information included in the original market
announcements and that all material assumptions and technical parameters underpinning the estimates in the relevant market
announcements referenced in this release continue to apply and have not materially changed. The Company confirms that the
form and context in which the Competent Persons findings are presented have not been materially modified from any of the
original announcements.
Mineral Resources – Base Metals
Iron Blow Mineral Resource
Iron Blow Mineral Resources by JORC Classification as at 03 May 2017 estimated utilising a cut-off grade of 1.0 g/t AuEq. See
ASX:PNX release ‘Hayes Creek Mineral Resources Exceed 1.1Moz Gold Equivalent’ 3 May 2017 for details.
Mt Bonnie Mineral Resource
Mt Bonnie Mineral Resources by JORC Classification as at 08 February 2017 estimated utilising a cut-off grade of 0.5 g/t Au for
Oxide/Transitional Domain, 1% Zn for Fresh Domain and 50g/t Ag for Ag Zone Domain. See ASX:PNX release ‘Upgrade to Mt
Bonnie Zinc-Gold-Silver Resource, Hayes Creek’ 9 February 2017 for details.
Hayes Creek Mineral Resource (Iron Blow + Mt Bonnie)
Notes: Due to effects of rounding, totals may not represent the sum of all components. Metallurgical recoveries and metal
prices have been applied in calculating zinc equivalent (ZnEq) and gold equivalent (AuEq) grades.
At Iron Blow a mineralisation envelope was interpreted for each of the two main lodes, the East Lode (Zn-Au-Ag-Pb) and West
Lode (Zn-Au), and four subsidiary lodes with a 1 g/t AuEq cut-off used to interpret and report these lodes. At Mt Bonnie Zn
domains are reported above a cut-of grade of 1% Zn, gold domains are reported above a cut-off grade of 0.5 g/t Au and silver
domains are reported above a cut-off grade of 50 g/t Ag. To assess the potential value of the total suite of minerals of economic
interest, formulae were developed to calculate metal equivalency for Au and Zn. Metal prices were derived from average
consensus forecasts from external sources for the period 2017 through 2021 and are consistent with those used in PNX’s
recently updated Mt Bonnie Mineral Resource Estimate. Metallurgical recovery information was sourced from test work
completed at the Iron Blow deposit, including historical test work. Mt Bonnie and Iron Blow have similar mineralogical
characteristics and are a similar style of deposit. In PNX’s opinion all the metals used in the equivalence calculation have a
reasonable potential to be recovered and sold. PNX has chosen to report both the ZnEq and AuEq grades as although
individually zinc is the dominant metal by value, the precious metals are the dominant group by value and will be recovered
and sold separately to Zn.
The formulae below were applied to the estimated constituents to derive the metal equivalent values:
Gold Equivalent (field = “AuEq”) (g/t) = (Au grade (g/t) * (Au price per ounce/31.10348) * Au recovery) + (Ag grade (g/t) * (Ag price
per ounce/31.10348) * Ag recovery) + (Cu grade (%) * (Cu price per tonne/100) * Cu recovery) + (Pb grade (%) * (Pb price per
tonne/100) * Pb recovery) + (Zn grade (%) * (Zn price per tonne/100) * Zn recovery) / (Au price per ounce/31.10348 * Au
recovery)
Zn (%) Pb (%) Cu (%) Ag (g/t) Au (g/t) ZnEq (%) AuEq (g/t)
Indicated 2.08 5.49 0.91 0.30 143 2.19 13.39 10.08
Inferred 0.45 1.11 0.18 0.07 27 1.71 4.38 3.30
TOTAL 2.53 4.71 0.78 0.26 122 2.10 11.79 8.87
Contained Metal 119kt 18kt 7kt 9.9Moz 171koz 298kt 722koz
Tonnes
(Mt)
Grade
JORC Classification
Zn (%) Pb (%) Cu (%) Ag (g/t) Au (g/t) ZnEq (%) AuEq (g/t)
Indicated 1.38 3.96 1.15 0.23 128 1.41 9.87 8.11
Inferred 0.17 2.11 0.87 0.16 118 0.80 6.73 5.53
TOTAL 1.55 3.76 1.12 0.22 127 1.34 9.53 7.82
Contained Metal 58kt 17kt 3kt 6.3Moz 69koz 147kt 389koz
JORC Classification
Tonnes
(Mt)
Grade
Zn (%) Pb (%) Cu (%) Ag (g/t) Au (g/t) ZnEq (%) AuEq (g/t)
Indicated 3.46 4.88 1.01 0.27 137.00 1.88 11.99 9.29
Inferred 0.62 1.39 0.37 0.10 52.00 1.46 5.03 3.91
TOTAL 4.08 4.35 0.91 0.25 124.00 1.81 10.93 8.47
Contained Metal 177kt 37kt 10kt 16Moz 238koz 445kt 1,110koz
JORC Classification
Tonnes
(Mt)
Grade
Zinc Equivalent (field = “ZnEq”) (%) = (Au grade (g/t) * (Au price per ounce/31.10348) * Au recovery) + (Ag grade (g/t) * (Ag price
per ounce/31.10348) * Ag recovery) + (Cu grade (%) * (Cu price per tonne/100) * Cu recovery) + (Pb grade (%) * (Pb price per
tonne/100) * Pb recovery) + (Zn grade (%) * (Zn price per tonne/100) * Zn recovery) / (Zn price per tonne/100 * Zn recovery)
The Company confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information included in
the original market announcements and that all material assumptions and technical parameters underpinning the estimates in
the relevant market announcements referenced in this release continue to apply and have not materially changed. The
Company confirms that the form and context in which the Competent Persons findings are presented have not been materially
modified from any of the original announcements.
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